Inside the Locker Room Tight end Jamie Staples '07 spills his story

Author: James Kerrigan

Senior co-captain Jamie Staples and the Middlebury football team are eager to build on the success they saw at the end of last year's season. After winning three of their final four contests, Middlebury is eyeing the top of the NESCAC standings for 2006.

The Pacific Grove, California-native also finished with a bang in 2005 as the tight end caught 10 passes for 123 yards including a touchdown in a 21-16 win over Tufts. He ended his junior year leading the team in receiving with 473 yards - nearly twice as many as the second best target.

Staples, an international politics and economics major, currently resides in an off-campus house. He commutes to and from work every day, at the beginning of the day his office has a desk and at the end of the day it has an endzone.

So who knows the playmaker better, his quarterback Tiger Lyon '07 or his housemate and SGA President Alex Stanton? Lyon knows where Staples is on the field at all times, but does he know him inside and out? Stanton battles Staples in football, too, although Stanton does most of his tackling with the "hitstick" button of popular football video games. Does Stanton know what it is like inside the locker room?


A tie in the Staples sweepstakes? Yeah, we've got that.

Neither the gavel banging SGA president nor the touchdown throwing quarterback could seperate themself as the Staples know-it-all, yet both provided some valuable insight to the life of Jamie Staples.

It is clear that Staples is a morning person as he is up with the first sound of his alarm. This is roughly 3.5 snooze button slaps below the College average.

Interestingly both Lyon and Stanton were convinced that Gwen Stefani frequents Staples' playlists. Lyon even went so far as to say that "Holla Back Girl" is played most often.

When asked about his classes, Staples noted Latin America Political Development as his favorite, whereas Stanton commented that his preferred class is "anything but Latin America Political Development."

Staples, who transfered to Middlebury from University of California at Berkley, has found a new home in the Green Mountain State and in the vacant spaces of opposing defenses. He hopes to leave his make his impact felt this season.